From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V4 #300 Reply-To: precious-things@smoe.org Sender: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "precious-things-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. precious-things-digest Tuesday, October 5 1999 Volume 04 : Number 300 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: I think I have the date right, and... lawn seats ? At Irvine ? [Majo] Re: Houston Show... ["pagina (spanish - \"pa-HEE-na\")" ] Student.Com Review of TVaB ["Suzanne Yada (me)" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 17:25:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Major Tom Subject: Re: I think I have the date right, and... lawn seats ? At Irvine ? > pregnant ? I was just saying I didn't hear her say that... and I quoted > some things she *did* say, in case that's the part of the show people were > talking about. actually, i was at the irvine show on the 25th, and she said something about pregnancy then, but not in relation to herself. as i think it's been told before, she stopped before a song and said she wanted to say hi to all the people up there in the lawn seats, and that SOMEONE was sure t'get pregnant tonight. (this because there's a running joke about people having sex in the lawn seats of outdoor amphitheaters, so i've heard) > I never saw any lawn seats; and I've been to Irvine more than once. It's an > outdoor (but man-made, an amphitheater right ? like The Greek) arena... > where are the lawn seats ? There is a blacktopped (and partly grass) lobby well, i know for a fact that there are lawn seats there, because even though i was seated in a loge, i accidentally walked ALL the way up the damned hill, past the terrace seating area, to the lawn seating area, and was told i had to walk all the way back down. of course, looking up from my seat, i might as well have been sitting in the lawn seating area, it was only about 10 or 20 feet from me ;) the lawn seating area isn't very big, but it's there. :) - ami ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 19:10:46 -0500 From: "pagina (spanish - \"pa-HEE-na\")" Subject: Re: Houston Show... are you talking about seattle? wurmy - ----- Original Message ----- From: angel dust To: Cc: Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 6:56 PM Subject: Re: Houston Show... > wurmy > > well, there's a meet n greet scheduled here and there's that thing where > you can sit and have tea with her beforehand too. i don't know if it's > just something that she's doing here, or if she's done more and people on > this list just didn't know..... > > like latex, fur and feathers: angel > > "if you haven't swallowed it, > smoked it, or licked it, you suck!" > --Tori Amos > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -------------------------------------- > from what i have heard (and seen) she hasnt done post-show meet and > greets at all this tour. i heard it was because it was just too > tiring/hard on her and i agree. the after show greets are always way too > hectic. besides that she had to meet with all the RAINN auction winners > after the show too. > > wurmy > > ___________________________________________________________________ > Get the Internet just the way you want it. > Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! > Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 22:10:21 -0700 From: "Suzanne Yada (me)" Subject: Student.Com Review of TVaB Today I got an e-mail from Student.Com, an online magazine with articles written directly for the college student. This week's music review is, guess what, to venus and back. The introduction in the e-mail reads like this: - -=-=-=-=- She's Your Venus, She's Your Fire Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Period. Except for Tori Amos. Her new album suggests she's actually from Mars. - --> http://www.student.com/musicreview/torilive - -=-=-=-=- So I go there, and I can't really tell if the article is good or bad. It seems like this guy doesn't really like her wacko lyrics, and kinda sorta likes the studio CD maybe, but does like the live CD. Cooling in particular. Here is the article: TORI AMOS TO VENUS AND BACK BY SIMON RODBERG STUDENT.COM CORRESPONDENT Tori Amos is that most oxymoronic of creatures, the introverted rocker. She sings not only of her own pain — most rockers do that — but in her own language, an often impenetrable music of hieroglyphs and defensive metaphors. That's one Tori, anyway. The other's ambitions lean a little more towards Robert Plant and Nine Inch Nails, to proving that a girl with a piano and a high-heeled stomp can kick out the jams with bravado to beat the big boys. On her new double album, "to venus and back," Tori makes it easy for her listeners to tell the difference. Disc One, "Venus Orbiting," is ultra-studio and ultra-introverted, an exploration of the underbelly of trip-hop (already positioned as the underbelly of rock). The tracks are dense and difficult, lyrically and aurally, as uninviting as pop music gets: pretty, yes, but also terrifyingly ephemeral. "I don't think you even know/what you think you just said" — is she talking to herself? That's Disc One, anyway. Disc Two is Tori as Trent, with enough punch to merit ten-inch nails. It's "Venus Live: Still Orbiting", the soundtrack to her recent tour, and if any doubts were left about the energy behind the introspection, this half of "to venus and back" should explode them like fireworks. The songs sound filled-out, played with, unraveled until nearly comprehensible: "Waitress" extends past ten minutes, "Precious Things" and "Little Earthquakes" hit nearly eight, and Tori sounds thrilled at the chance to break the pop-song confine and stretch out her personal demons. Or her personal gods. She introduces a new song, "Cooling," with the comment that "She's one of my best friends of all the songs. She just didn't want to be on any of the records...She decided she liked being played live, so I play her a lot." She's also much more appealing than any of the new studio songs, maybe because Tori's complexities are easier to deal with when the bells, whistles, and drum machines of trip-hop don't stand in the way. Other highlights of Disc Two include ferocious versions of "Girl" and "Sugar," and a performance of "Cloud On My Tongue" so achingly over-the-top that it makes me rue the subtleties of Disc One all the more. The studio songs may be brilliant, but it'll take another ten listens to even begin to understand them; "From the Choirgirl Hotel," her last album, was as instantly recognizable as a classic as "Little Earthquakes," her first, was instantly recognizable as a breakthrough. Breakthroughs are what Tori Amos is all about, after all. She sings in the moment where private pain becomes public outcry, where the most personally meaningful musings become revelation. It would help if the revelation didn't come in lyrics like "didn't lie to you/But I still can't believe speedracer is dead/so then I thought I'd make some plans/but she thought she'd really rather be water instead." But at least she makes you want to come inside. Simon Rodberg tips waitresses generously. ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V4 #300 *************************************